Get yourfree 14-day trial membership of Gabfest sponsor Audible.com, which includes a credit for one free audio book. Listener DeeDee from South Africa recommends The Modern Scholar Series, which are lectures by college professors on a wide variety of topics. Two of her favorites are The Anglo-Saxon World and Epochs in European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance. You'll find links to this and previous Gabfest recommendations on our new Audible RSS feed.

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On this week's Slate Political Gabfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz discuss the Gulf oil spill, the Gaza flotilla raid, and the questions raised about Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff's administration job offers.

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